The St. Johns herald., 1887-09-29

HUN. w. ". MORHON, IGt pIcSGH- resentative in Congress from Cali fornia, in strong and emphatic communication has called the at- tention of the Secretary of State to the recent murder of Leon Baldwin, a mining engineer of San Francis co, in the vicinity of Ventanas, Mexico. The murder of Baldwin is the culmination of outrages, in suits, extortions and blackmail which have been systematically practioed by a lawless band of greas- CTS upor Carroll & Co.,, firm con sisting of ". w. Carroll and four other Americans, who have for some time past been operating sore mines in the State of Durango. Mexico.
 About a year ago band of ma rauders, under the leadership of one Eraclio Bernal, took forcible possession of the mines, and de- handed tribute of $10,O00 before they would release them, and with high-handed audacity, arrested the High Sheriff and held him as a hos tage for the payment of the money. Carroll and his partners, hopeless of redress from the Mexican gov ernment, and helpless in their iso- lation, were compelled to accede to the iniquitous demand. This same band of outlaws have raided and plundered the ranches of the Com pany, murdered the employees in charge, given fandangos and balls in honor of their cut-throat per formances, and openly, publicly boasted of their blood thirsty ex- ploits.
 Mir. Carroll has also been held up by this same gang on the highway, in broad day light, and robbed of $650, while his employees and prop ertv are constant sufferers from vio- lence and outrage. The Depart ment has been fully notified of the fact by John ". Triggs, of the United States Mint at San Francis co, and the same has been verified by the United States Consul at Mazatlan. The Mexican govern ment has been fully notified of these crimes by the State Department at Washington, and the deeds of blood and plunder of property have been so open and notorious that the Mexican authorities cannot fail to note and know them. The only ex- cuse given by Eraclio Bernal and his gang are, that Carroll X Co. are Americans and that they intend to drive the gringos out of the coun- try. Baldwin was openly and boastfully fired upon and assassi- mated from behind the rocks as he alighted from his horse in front of the mlne. A more dastardly, cow ardly, cold-blooded atrocity was never recorded in the biography of black and fendish crime-and hls innocent blood demands of God and this country a swift and righteous vengeance and retribution.
 How long are these outrages to go unrcbuked-how long is the weak, vacillating, time-serving pol icy of this government going to render it's citizenship a badge of reproach and its flag an object of scorn. A miserable, enervated, thievish nation of bandits, murder CTS and marauders, stand upon the very threshold of this boastful, vaunting Republic, and with the leer of malice upon their saffron fronts, and the hate of devils in their hearts, revel i'll the plunder and riot in the blood of American citizens under the very canopy of the national flag. It is time we either submit or smite inactivity is the confession of weakness or the shame of indifference. If there are laws to punish one of our own citi- zens for murderlng another-laws which are strong enough and sure enough to preserve inviolate the